"Skinful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried Ali derisively. "A hundred philips for that skinful of bones! Ma'sh'-Allah! Five philips ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... pits and the two regular wells near the valley's mouth, half an hour's trudge from the town. The wealthy are supplied by the inland fort, which we shall presently visit: the distance going and coming would be about four slow hours, and the skinful costs five Khurdah, or copper piastres three halfpence. The inner gardens grow a small quantity of green meat: water-melons are brought from Yamb(?): opium and Hashsh abound, but no spirits are for sale since the one Greek ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton
... skin of oil on it to rest herself and on that day her oil never decreased, and when she had finished selling in the market she had all her oil as well as the money. Her husband suspected her of evil practices, but, when next day her mother-in-law laid a skinful of oil on the image and the same thing happened, it was seen that the god had made himself manifest to her, and a temple was built and named after her and the image enshrined in it. Similarly the image of Mahadeo at Pithampur in Bilaspur was seen buried by a Teli in a dream, ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell |
